Elaine Smith Email & Phone Number

In 1979, after years as a teacher, Elaine Smith applied to the FBI. After completing the physically, mentally, and psychologically grueling training school of the FBI, Elaine was sent to Chicago to begin her career as a Special Agent. Always intrigued by the Chicago mob, she developed a strategy to obtain the boss' approval to gain an assignment on an organized crime squad – a position only one other woman in the history of Chicago's FBI office had worked.Upon arriving on the squad of agents tasked with investigating the north side crew of the mob, Elaine's supervisors gave her the case targeting Ken Eto, an investigation, over 30 years old. In FBI jargon, this was an "Old Dog" case. The men of the FBI wanted Elaine to prove herself - by solving the case that none of them could solve. And that she did. Within 18 months, she had gathered enough evidence to federally indict Eto, and unknown to anyone at that time, sign his death warrant. Two mobsters tried to kill Eto and failed. The two ended up tortured and murdered by their mob compatriots. Eto was now working for Elaine.In 1987 Elaine was named the first female supervisor in the history of the Chicago FBI and the second supervisor in the United States. For the next ten years, Elaine remained the only female member of management. Elaine is an expert in money laundering law and the banking industry. In 2000, the Federal Reserve Bank named her Leader of the Year. In 2001, Elaine led the team in reconstructing the financial backgrounds of the 19 terrorists of the 9/11 attack of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the downing of Flight # 91 in Pennsylvania.Elaine retired from the FBI in 2020 but continues to conduct examinations for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and assist financial institutions in designing their transaction detection systems to prevent irregular patterns, often a sign of money laundering.